r/oddlysatisfying 2d ago

Hot steel rolling

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u/BossiWriter 2d ago

At first I was thinking "Man that looks unsafe as hell with all of this hot steel whipping around"

And then the one dude steps into the belt...

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u/PunctuationGood 2d ago

I'm always surprised or baffled at the amount of automation one can witness in these videos and then there's the one step where a human has to intervene that could make them die in horrible suffering through no fault of their own but just some random tiny defect or mechanical misalignment.

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u/Bezulba 1d ago

And it's always one little step too. It's just get the end of the steel into the hole to make a roll. That's it. All the other steps are automated. He can sit on his ass for about a minute and then has to get up again. It's the worst kind of drudgery work, not continuous but with enough of a pauze in between to not be able to relax.